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Motor Bus (1927)
by Alfred Denis Godley

This macaronic poem commemorates the introduction of a motorised omnibus service in the city of Oxford.

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MOTOR BUS

WHAT is this that roareth thus?
Can it be a Motor Bus?
Yes, the smell and hideous hum
Indicat Motorem Bum!
Implet in the Corn and High
Terror me Motoris Bi:
Bo Motori clamitabo
Ne Motore caedar a Bo—
Dative be or Ablative
So thou only let us live:
Whither shall thy victims flee?
Spare us, spare us, Motor Be!
Thus I sang; and still anigh
Came in hordes Motores Bi,
Et complebat omne forum
Copia Motorum Borum.
How shall wretches live like us
Cincti Bis Motoribus?
Domine, defende nos
Contra hos Motores Bos!

A. D. Godley, January 1914


This work was published before January 1, 1931, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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